The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England: Being a Faithful Account of All the Most Remarkable Transactions in Parliament, from the Earliest Times. Collected from the Journals of Both Houses, the Records, Original Manuscripts, Scarce Speeches, and Tracts; All Compared Withthe Several Contemporary Writers, and Connected, Throughout, with the History of the Times. By Several Hands...Printed; and sold by T. Osborne; and W. Sandby, 1760 - Great Britain |
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... which , with fome very intereft- ing Particulars relative to the Work , and which have come to Hand fince the Publication of the for- mer Volumes , must be poftponed . These last we intend to ; to add by Way of Appendix , to precede.
... which , with fome very intereft- ing Particulars relative to the Work , and which have come to Hand fince the Publication of the for- mer Volumes , must be poftponed . These last we intend to ; to add by Way of Appendix , to precede.
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... last Resolution feems to have been distaste- ful to the Protector and his Council ; for we find that , on the 10th of this Month , the faid Refolu- tion being read again in the Houfe , and the Que- ftion put , That Leave be given to the ...
... last Resolution feems to have been distaste- ful to the Protector and his Council ; for we find that , on the 10th of this Month , the faid Refolu- tion being read again in the Houfe , and the Que- ftion put , That Leave be given to the ...
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... last cited Authority a informs us , That his Highness was pleased to make a Return by a Speech , with his wonted Piety , Wifdom , and Moderation , to the following Effect : further Time , and raises many Objections . That no Man could ...
... last cited Authority a informs us , That his Highness was pleased to make a Return by a Speech , with his wonted Piety , Wifdom , and Moderation , to the following Effect : further Time , and raises many Objections . That no Man could ...
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... last Time I had the Honour to meet the Parliament , I did offer to them , That they would put me into a Condition to receive Satisfaction to the Particulars : No Question , I might easily offer fomething parti- cular for Debate , if I ...
... last Time I had the Honour to meet the Parliament , I did offer to them , That they would put me into a Condition to receive Satisfaction to the Particulars : No Question , I might easily offer fomething parti- cular for Debate , if I ...
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... last to attend you , to be as brief as may be . " 6 • Your Highness was pleased then to say , ' That though the Arguments brought in Favour of the Title of King , in the Petition prefented to you by the Parliament , were weighty ; yet ...
... last to attend you , to be as brief as may be . " 6 • Your Highness was pleased then to say , ' That though the Arguments brought in Favour of the Title of King , in the Petition prefented to you by the Parliament , were weighty ; yet ...
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Page 140 - And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them...
Page 128 - Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging...
Page 182 - I can say in the presence of God, in comparison with whom we are but like poor creeping ants upon the earth, I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than undertaken such a government as this.
Page 371 - Faith to be agreed upon as aforesaid ; and such who profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, God co-equal with the Father and the Son, one God blessed for ever, and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, to be the revealed Will and Word of God, and shall in other things differ in doctrine, worship or discipline, from the public profession held forth...
Page 140 - God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them : that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.
Page 184 - ... people might be the men that might rule all ; and they are endeavouring to engage the army to carry that thing. And hath that man been true to this nation...
Page 110 - I say I am persuaded to return this answer to you : that I cannot undertake this government with the title of King.
Page 199 - His most Serene and Renowned Highness Oliver Lord Protector, being after a sickness of about fourteen days (which appeared an Ague in the beginning) reduced to a very low condition of Body, began early this morning to draw near the gate of death; and it pleased God about three a clock afternoon to put a period to his life.
Page 43 - Westminster to the Old Exchange, London : and there likewise be set on the pillory, with his head in the pillory, for the space of two hours, between the hours of eleven and one, on Saturday next, in each place wearing a paper containing an inscription of his crimes ; and that at the Old Exchange his tongue be bored through with a hot iron and that he be there also stigmatized in the forehead with the letter B...
Page 254 - presuming to carry all before them, grew unmeasurably insolent, and all that could be done, was only to lengthen out their debates, and to hang on the wheels of the chariot, that they might not be able to drive so furiously.